Brick and tile kiln



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No. 289,988. Patented' Dec. 11, 1888.

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UNITED YSTATES e PATENT OEEICE.

.IOHN W. SOUDERS AND JOSEPH PRUTZMAN, OF MUNCIE, INDIANA.

l BRICK AND TILE KILN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,938, dated December 11, 1883,

' Application filed June 21, 1883. ("No model.)

T @ZZ whom/'7115 mal/concern: n

Be itjknownthat we, .TOEN W. SoUDERs and JOSEPH PRUTZMAN, citizens of the United States,- residing at Muncie, in thecounty-of Delaware and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Kilns for BurningvBrick, Tile, 8mo., of which the following is aspecification.

Ourfinvention rela-tesv to improvements in kilns for burning brick, tile, &c.; and it consists in a particular form and apparatus for generating and retaining heat, and the object being to facilitate and cheapen the burning of brick, &c. v

Figure l is a vertical side view, partly in section; and Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on different lines.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. It will be seen in Fig. 2 that one side of the kilnis cut down through the line x and the otherside through the line S S.

The kiln consists, mainly, of the side walls,

F, and furnaces C C. The furnaces are divided into rooms by partition-walls I, as shown in Fig. l. Each room consists of two rows of arches, z', side by side, and extending backward to the wall or base H. VThese arches are set apart, leaving spaces s s between them. On

these arches the brick floor 'f is laid, the back.

part of which is made tight, while in the'front spaces f are left 'between the brick, so as toV admit a free current of air up through the archesand'oor. The said iioor is laid of brick set up edgewise, the row directly over the center of the two arches being laid cross- Wise of the furnaces, as shown in section x x of Fig. 2, and by solid 'or black brick f in Fig. 1, the othersbeinglaid lengthwise of the furnaces over the spaces s left between the arches, as shown, by solid brick in Fig. 2.

The base or iioor H of the kiln is made of some solid substance, on which the brick or tile are placed to burn.

On eachrside of the furnace-rooms are the walls I, covered over by the arches T. In

the front of the furnaces are the doors A, and in the back walls are the openings dand dues D, the openings d leading into the body or lower part of the kiln, where the brick or tile are placed, and the openings or iiues D leading up and entering into the body of the kiln above the furnaces, all as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A brick, D, is placed over the opening D', so that it may be drawn out, as shown in dotted lines, to allow a draft of heated air or fire .to enterthe upper portion of the kiln, or closed, as shown in Fig. 2. The openings d are made in a T shape, as shown in Fig. 2, with a downward projection, g, which causes the draft to strike downward as it passes through the said opening, as shown.

As thus described, the fuel is placed in the several furnace-rooms upon the floor f, and

lthe draft comes in at the opening B up through the fioor f, and into the kiln through the openings d. When it is desired, the heat may be passed into the upper portion of the kiln through the flues D. The flues D at each end of the kiln are placed at the outside corner of the furnace instead of the center, as in the other furnaces, all as shown in section part of Fig. 1. The ends of the kiln may be built up in the usual form, and the number of furnaces on a side may also be varied as desired.

VHaving thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure the following by Letters Patent:

In a kiln, the combination, with the rooms consisting of parallel arches formed with airspaces between them, of an open floor, afiue, d, for the admission of air to the bottom of the kiln, and a flue, D', provided with a brick valve, D, for regulating the admission of airf JOHN W. SOUDERS. JOSEPH PItUTZMAN.l

Witnesses:

T. F. RosE, Guns. A. SUEEEINs. 

